YEMEN'S VOICE
Yemen, Essay, 8/9/1997

In his new collection entitled " Al-Zubairi, the voice of Yemen "Dr Abdul Aziz Al Makalleh a Yemeni writer and poet, tried to clarify all about Zoubairi's life.
He said "no two people disagree that Yemen's poet Mohammed Al Zoubairi represents the true poetic voice of his country, not to say the whole Arab world".

A1 Zoubairi is the poet whose career and poetic works bore the prints of the Yemen's struggle for independence and unity

Al Zoubairi held many tasks as a journalist, leader, nationalist, novelist, writer and a martyr.

In his foreword to Al Zoubairi's collection of poetry, Dr. Abdul Aziz Al Makaleh asserts that the poet's works overflow with truthfulness, spontaneity, heroism and a thorough analysis of time and place.

A1 Zoubairi was born in Sanaa around 1907 a middle-class family, whose members worked as businessmen and lawyers, but for the poet who was nurtured to become a Sufi, living in a spiritual world of his. he never came to terms with trade of law professions because these could not secure the axis of life for him.

A1 Zoubairi began his long career as a politician where he studied at Cairo University and returned home bearing enlightenment in the preaches of good doctrines.

But he was thrown into jail immediately after his arrival, where he was able to flee his prison into the British occupied Aden.

Following the first military coup on 1948, and overthrow of Imam Yahya, he became minister of education, for only a short period of time.
After the collapse of the coup, Al Zubairi fled to Pakistan, where he spent five years, before he returned back after the eruption of the 1962 Revolution.

He was appointed as a minister of education. He was assassinated on March 30th 1965

His poem "the Nightingale" was composed after the collapse of the 1948 revolution. It tells of the innermost feelings of frustration, loss of direction.

It is not a chirrup of the nightingale that he hears, but the voices of muffled sobs, crying, and torturing. It is a world full of plotters, informers and spies.

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